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Poem by Walt Whitman


Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 35. True Conquerors


Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent,)
Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck,
Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their wounds, defeats and scars;
Enough that they've survived at all—long life's unflinching ones!
Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged at all—
      in that alone,
True conquerors o'er all the rest.



Walt Whitman


Walt Whitman's other poems:
  1. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 28. Offerings
  2. Leaves of Grass. 32. From Noon to Starry Night. 19. What Best I See in Thee
  3. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 31. Yonnondio
  4. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 43. The Dying Veteran
  5. Leaves of Grass. 35. Good-Bye My Fancy. 25. “The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete”


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